{"id":13612,"date":"2021-03-10T14:26:35","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T08:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.22.110.190\/english\/?p=13612"},"modified":"2021-03-10T14:27:32","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T08:57:32","slug":"suvendu-adhikary-plays-record-says-mamata-banerjees-chants-of-chandi-path-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/suvendu-adhikary-plays-record-says-mamata-banerjees-chants-of-chandi-path-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Suvendu Adhikary plays record, says Mamata Banerjee\u2019s chants of &#8220;Chandi-path&#8221; wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee\u2019s contender from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Nandigram, Suvendu Adhikary, on Wednesday said that Banerjee\u2019s chant of the \u201c<em>Chandi-path<\/em>\u201d was wrong. At a public meeting in Nandigram today \u2013 Banerjee too is in Nandigram currently \u2013 Suvendu Adhikary played the mantra that she had chanted and said it was incorrect.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, at a public meeting in Nandigram, Mamata Banerjee had recited passages of \u201c<em>Chandi-path<\/em>\u201d or chants for the goddess Durga. She had said, \u201cYou can\u2019t teach me Hinduism. I know the mantras recited before goddesses Lakshmi, Saraswati, Kali and Durga.\u201d Then she chanted a few lines, and said that she knew them by heart and had not memorised a few lines only to mention them at meetings.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Adhikary played a recording of the chants and then played Mamata Banerjee\u2019s recital. Then he said: \u201cHer <em>Chandi-path<\/em> is wrong. The mantras are wrongly delivered.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Adhikary said that he would invite Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath to Nandigram. The saffron-clad CM has been among the BJP\u2019s top campaigners in elections over the past few years. Adhikary said that Yogi can chant the correct mantras.<\/p>\n<p>Banerjee and Adhikary face each other in the Nandigram assembly seat that goes to the polls on April 1. Elections in Bengal start from March 27 and continues till April 29 in eight phases. Results will be out on May 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee\u2019s contender from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Nandigram, Suvendu Adhikary, on Wednesday said that Banerjee\u2019s chant of the \u201cChandi-path\u201d was wrong. At a public meeting in Nandigram today \u2013 Banerjee too is in Nandigram currently \u2013 Suvendu Adhikary played the mantra that she had chanted and said it was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1236,"featured_media":13613,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[387,57,49,513,599,583,46,403],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13612","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-bengal","8":"tag-assembly-elections-2021","9":"tag-bjp","10":"tag-mamata-banerjee","11":"tag-nandigram","12":"tag-suvendu-adhikary","13":"tag-top-story","14":"tag-trinamool-congress","15":"tag-west-bengal-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1236"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13612"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=13612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}